The more I hear about the stuff republicans, and now I’m talking about the “rank and file” republicans, believe I keep thinking of that word I hate; STUPID. The last report I read says 29% of registered republicans still believe, come August, individual 1 will be “reinstated as president.” Brainwashed? or just plain STUPID? I’ll let you decide, but it doesn’t take someone much time to “fact check” the GARBAGE which is being foisted by those on the “right” with the “megaphone” with which they continue to spout what is still called the “Big Lie.” And, before I get into more details of my thoughts today (and likely, the days to come) I MUST remind you the “Big Lie Theory” was the “brainchild” of Adolph Hitler. Just sayin…………..

Why do they use a strategy which was devised by Hitler and used by his “head of propaganda” Joseph Goebbels to turn the German republic into the fascist state which attempted to overrun Europe, Russia, and likely the U.S. during WW II? Well, obviously, it works! As I just pointed out, 29% of registered republicans in America believe their “fuhrer” will be reinstated come August! What will be the next SCAM propagated on them once August has come and gone and individual 1 remains nothing more than the TARGET of numerous CRIMINAL investigations. That’s right, the republican party has allowed itself to become a cult following of someone who is CORRUPT up to his eyeballs – and, while he’s been able to get away with bullying law enforcement for years – the days of ACCOUNTABILITY could well be on the near horizon.

Here’s the biggest rub for me, the republican party stands for NOTHING – that’s right, other than tax cuts for the “rich” there’s NOTHING else – so, what is their purpose? You guessed it, NOTHING! but attempting to prevent the democrats from doing ANYTHING. Recently, there was a big announcement of a “bipartisan infrastructure deal.” I listened to Joe Biden say “They gave me their word and I gave them mine. In my day your word was your bond.” (or words to that effect) Newsflash!

He was standing next to something like 10 republicans who had “given him their word.” What do you think the odds of them following through on that “word?” I’d say MUCH closer to zero than one hundred percent. Will democrats be able to incorporate that “agreement” into their proposed reconciliation plan for the rest of Biden’s infrastructure proposal? Will Joe Manchin, who is reveling in being the most “visible” Senator after a career in invisibility, “let” the democrats plan go forward?

Here’s the deal, the republicans feel they MUST continue the so-called “Big Lie” out of necessity because the democrats are doing stuff which affects, not only their constituents, but, also, the constituents of those republicans who ALL voted against their legislation and who, LIKELY, will ALL vote against the next democratic proposal, the infrastructure proposal. The FIRST of the Biden “agenda” legislation, the “Covid Recovery Bill,” is now putting $$$ in the pockets of families with children all across America. That’s probably noticeable, even to republicans.

So, that’s why I believe the republican party will NOT provide the 10 votes necessary to get the so-called “bipartisan infrastructure bill” over the “finish line” in the face of Moscow Mitch’s “filibuster” (which, in today’s senate, aren’t even filibusters – just a convenient way to block the majority’s agenda) – the ONLY thing you can count on coming from the republican party. I just don’t see where McConnell will be unable to change at least some of the “minds” of the 10 republicans who gave Joe Biden their “word.” Does anyone actually believe with republicans “their word is their bond?” (I actually hope I’m wrong, but my level of cynicism is quite high)

So, what are republicans doing – i.e., what is their “agenda?” It appears to me, there are two fronts. One is getting their “donors” to keep the heat on democrats like Manchin and Krysten Sinema in order to prevent them from agreeing to do anything to the filibuster (remember, McConnell and the republicans voted in a “carve out” allowing them to put three right wing judges on the Supreme Court with 51 votes) which would allow, for example, a bill nationalizing voting suppression, gerrymandering, and “dark money” restrictions. Democrats could also, then, restore the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The OTHER objective of republicans is to continue the “Big Lie” keeping their constituents in individual 1’s cult – because that’s the ONLY way they see as their way to return to POWER.

But, with republicans, there’s ALWAYS more! For starters, they’ve been leading an “anti-vax” campaign which appears to be leading to a lot of their “base” coming down with Covid-19, or, worse yet, the children of their “base” getting the disease caused by the virus. Sadly, many of these young people are getting what is called the “long haul” version of Covid, or DYING, and the “numbers” of Americans infected by the disease is going up, almost exponentially – mainly in the so-called “red states.”

I did some checking yesterday in regard to the issue with hospital capacity around the country and it was a bit startling. I kept finding hospitals with ZERO capacity in their ICU units – with listings of how many Covid patients they had – and, there were large numbers of Covid patients in hospital mainly all across the South. Missouri was REALLY bad, as was Florida, Georgia, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi – are you getting the idea here? According to the CDC approximately 99.5% of those DYING from Covid-19 are people who are unvaccinated. What that tells me, is 0.5% of those dying with Covid HAVE been vaccinated. Do I need to put on my mask again?

There are MANY examples of people who’ve been vaccinated contracting Covid, but the reality is ALMOST all of them DON’T die from it. It’s true “only” around 2% of those who contract Covid actually DIE from it (And, by the way, it’s a brutal way to “go”) but, as I just said, 99% of those who DIE haven’t chosen to get the vaccine. Today, despite 7 states which haven’t recorded their results, there are around 40,000 NEW cases of Americans infected with, in MOST cases, the so-called “Delta” variant which is much more serious than previous “variants.” Republicans who are urging their supporters to refuse the vaccine are, in effect, causing their followers to get sick and, in many cases, DIE! What’s that word I hate? Yep, STUPID! Sorry, but that’s how I see it.

I’ve been wondering for over four years why anyone would listen to a common CRIMINAL like individual 1. Before they voted for him they new he was a serial sexual predator – he admitted as much on the now infamous Access Hollywood tape. It didn’t take much reading for me to get a “view” of his FAILURES as a businessman and his cruelty to anyone outside his “circle” – including the children of his older (deceased) brother – which he CHEATED out of their inheritance. (He also CHEATS at golf!) The “stories” of his CORRUPTION, both before he got to the “White House” and while he was there are too many to keep up with.

However, as I’ve said here MANY times, the TRUTH will come out, drip by drip. Individual 1 is facing possible CRIMINAL charges in at least two different investigations – his “organization” has already been INDICTED by the Manhattan DA – both from the investigation in New York which has, so far, resulted in the INDICTMENT of his “Chief Financial Officer,” AND from the investigation in Atlanta resulting from his calls to Georgia political executives while trying to get them to “find 11,780 votes, one more than we need.” That’s election FRAUD in plain site. Will the Fulton County DA have the guts to INDICT our TWICE IMPEACHED so-called two time popular vote LOSING (ex) president which will further stir up his CULT – in Georgia, no less.

Again, there’s more! Is the Southern District of NY going to follow up on the case where individual 1 got his name (for me, anyway). The case where his former “fixer” was INDICTED for the ILLEGAL payments to two women who “allegedly” had affairs with individual 1 – payments made at the “direction of” and “for the benefit of” individual 1. Cohen went to prison over that FELONY (along with other charges he plead ‘guilty’ to) and, don’t you think our TWICE IMPEACHED so-called two time popular vote LOSING (EX) president should answer for that same FELONY which he was the “unindicted co-conspirator?” (he was, then, protected by the so-called OLC memo, but NOT now!)

And, what about January 6th, 2021? If you were paying attention, not only to what happened on that date, but also all the “schooling” which took place leading up to that date and causing individual 1’s sycophants to believe he actually had won the election. Along with a few others on that now infamous date, there can be NO doubt he INCITED his supporters to go to the Capitol Building and “Fight like hell, or you won’t have a country anymore.” Over 500 of them are now facing serious CRIMINAL charges and, of course, in true American tradition, individual 1 is still going around the nation saying he “won in a landslide.” It was all planned and he’s doing exactly what he would have done four years earlier, except that the Electoral College, gave him a “win.” Does anyone actually believe he had no responsibility for what happened on January 6th, 2021? Plllllease!

I can guarantee you, there’s even more! We’re going to see all of it as time goes by. Today, another member of individual 1’s inner circle, Tom Barrack, was indicted on a plethora of alleged FELONIES emanating from him working as a foreign lobbyist for the UAE and the Saudi’s without registering. The list of individual 1’s associates who’ve been INDICTED on serious FELONIES (naturally, he pardoned many of them on the “way out the door”) is a long one, and it’s likely to get longer – including him. As I’ve said, it will all keep coming out. We’re going to find out if our nation really is a “nation of laws and not men.” Merrick Garland “are you listening!”

Here’s why it’s likely to get really “sticky.” From what I’ve read, it appears individual 1’s three adult children who are “executives” of his “organization” are on shaky legal ground in the New York case – in the same “vein” as his CFO Allen Weisselberg. And, his daughter Ivanka’s husband, Jared Kushner, very well could have been up to his ears in some of the CORRUPTION which seemed to be the “daily routine” of the previous administration – not the least of which was how he went about securing the financing for his property at, get this, 666 Fifth Avenue. (OK, if you don’t know, 666 is, Biblically, the mark of the devil) I believe Kushner qualifies for the saying “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” – even though he’s “only” individual 1’s son-in-law. With individual 1 CORRUPTION seems to be never ending!

Final Thought: I mentioned above individual 1 would have unleashed the same “scheme” after LOSING had it happened in 2016. What most people don’t know is that the phrase “Stop the Steal” is the work of, none other than, Roger Stone, and he came up with it prior to the 2016 election. Obviously, it wasn’t “needed” back then, but Stone and individual 1 stored it away for “later” if the “need” might arise. YOU need to understand, out TWICE IMPEACHED so-called two time popular vote LOSING (ex) president KNEW he was bound to LOSE the 2020 election well before November 3rd, 2020. The attempt to OVERTHROW the “will of the people” was put in motion for the immediate months leading up to his LOSS as the American people rejected him in RECORD numbers. (That is EXACTLY why Americans are facing voter suppression legislation in states all across America. Republicans want LESS people to be eligible to vote.)

I wrote this over a week ago – I’m publishing it late because, well, those were my thoughts then – and, maybe even more today. Today was the first day of the “Select Committee’s” hearings regarding the assault on our Capitol Building on January 6th, 2021.